NFL Betting Update: Most Overrated Team – San Diego Chargers

It’s pretty easy to finish 13-3 when you play the likes of Denver, Oakland, and Kansas City twice a year. The combined record of the Chargers’ division rivals in the 2009-10 NFL betting season was a horrendous 17-31.

The Chargers made a smart move in deploying an aging Ladanian Tomlinson, who for the first time in his career was unable to post a 100-yard game in a season.

Darren Sproles and rookie running back Ryan Matthews will replace Tomlinson in the San Diego backfield in hopes of duplicating some of the production the NFL’s most consistent running back had in the past nine years for the Chargers.

Even if Matthews and Sproles can get close to Tomlinson’s individual production it doesn’t necessarily translate into postseason Charger success. Tomlinson and the rest of the Chargers failed to reach a Super Bowl since his rookie year in 2001.

The Chargers have not improved from last year, and although a first place finish in the AFC West is imminent, the Chargers will not win the AFC.

Phillip Rivers has yet to show he can best Peyton Manning and Tom Brady in the playoffs, one of whom he will inevitably have to get by to make it to the Super Bowl.

If it weren’t for the dreadful NFC West, the Chargers would have the easiest schedule for the 2010-11 NFL betting season.

The combined winning percentage of Chargers’ opponents this year is 45.3%. This is compared to the most difficult schedule shared by the Titans and Texans at 54.7%.

Don’t get me wrong, the Chargers are a good team. Bet on them to win the AFC West but, it’s difficult to take them to win anything beyond that this 2010-2011 NFL betting season.

I guess beating Manning the only two times he has faced him in the playoffs doesn't count. How can this be a professional writer?

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That is why I asked for a link. I have a feeling it is from Bleacher Report which is a site where anyone who wants to write an article, can have it posted. It is a joke of a site, and it full of uninformed fans who just like to talk **** about other teams that don't know about

Agreed i dont hear anybody ever puttin $ on SD in the post season especialy round game 2 time. Although I did have a coworker come up to me after he talked to his NFL *GUY* and told me watch out for SD goin all the way this year....